Today starts with a typically robust attack from Vlad on my primarily impregnable concept of Star Trekkie proportions. In a conflict of society versus the individual, surely society must win out, right? That’s not always the right approach says Vlad. There are some middle roads where, left to itself, society allows for individuals to develop and create, which also allows society to develop and benefit at the same time. That’s not to allow individual entrepreneurship to be completely at liberty to exercise its right to exploit and profit, however not every principle or idea should become a law or maxim.

Who owns time? Who owns my time? Why doesn’t technology help us in the way it was promised to? Multinationals versus small, local companies, and what kind of societal structure will best manage the impact of these different kinds of structure ...